784 Apache Mesa Road

Description

South Pass Ranch is a 1400 acre deeded ranch with a 160 acre BLM parcel at its center. This scenic rancho has mesa top gramma grass pastures, stock dams collecting run off water, cedar & pinon covered arroyos and deep canyons with stands of tall long needled ponderosa pines. Its been used as a cow calf and a horse operation in the past and the perimeter has good fences too! You'll find 5 stock dams, one with a solar subsurface pump. There is lots of feed on this ranch as its been lying fallow for several years! The Headquarters site uses solar w/power coming from 3 solar panel banks! The panels power the barn, bath house & water wells. The Hq site boasts a 4 stall red barn w/apartment built in 2018. The barns living quarters has a bedroom upstairs & bath & kitchen on the main floor & also a sauna for fun. Think about the horse barn be converted into a barnaminium, you decide? ! A very old rehabilitated stone school house next door has been turned into a one room bunk house that has running water. There is a small stone house close to the stables that has been used as a tack room & office. Owners built a native rock bath house next to her bunkhouse that has a lion's foot bath tub and commode, its heated too... About a half mile north is a large metal equipment storage building which has its own water well. Terrain on this ranch is level mesa tops, deep canyons, and you'll find an ~160 acre grazing bench off the far NE corner. There are several springs in the bottom of the canyons & another spring in an area just below the Hq site. Grasses are predominately native grammas, sacatone, side oats, etc. Tree cover is juniper, pinon and lots of tall ponderosa pine. The ranch should carry 35 - 40 a.u.'s year round easily. Native wildlife abounds w/black bear, deer, big cats and other native species. There are elk on the ranch, but no hunt permits exist but could be applied for! Its location is end of the road on the east side of Apache Mesa which makes it a quiet and private location with no restrictions. Check out this website: https://salliebingham.com/a-new-beginning/ Its one of a kind amigos... Come listen to the stars sing, its that kind of a rancho! Mas adelante...